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CARPET SWEEPER.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY A. GORE AND HIRAM \V. RU TON, OF GOSHEN, INDIANA, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO EDXVARD TV. VALKER, OF SAME PLACE.

CARPET-SWEEPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,101, dated November 26, 1889. Application filed June 24, 1889. $erial No. 315,370. (Model) To aZZ whom it may conceive;

Be it kn own that we, HENRY A. GORE and HIRAM \V. RU TON, citizens of the United States, residing at Goshen, in the county of Elkhart and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carpet-Sweepers; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others TO skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to carpet-sweepers; and it consists in novel means for raisingand lowering the brush and for opening and clos- I 5 ing the dust-pans, substantially as hereinafter specified.

Theinvention will be fully understood from the following description and claims, when taken in connection with the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is an end elevation of a carpetsweeper, showing our improvements applied. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail view in section, andl ig.

4 is a detail side elevation.

Referring to the annexed drawings by letter, A indicates the main frame or box of our sweeper, B the brush, and G the wheels upon which the structure rests and moves.

D indicates the handle-bail, provided at its lever end with an eccentric disk E and pin 6, which enters a hole in the case to support the bail D.

F indicates a bracket or hanger provided near its top with a circular opening adapted to receive the eccentric of the bail and operates therewith. This hanger or bracket F is pivoted to the band G and sits loosely on the outside of the main box. It is also provided with shoulders or lugs 0, against which the bail may rest and be retained in a vertical position when desired. This is accomplished by having a bracket F on each end of the main box, on one of which a lug is arranged on the right-hand side thereof. It also projects below the band G, forming a handlepiece for the purpose of releasing the brush.

The band G is preferably made of elastic metal, and is secured to the main box by a pivot-pin d. It has small slots f to receive guiding and holding 'pins g, so arrangedas to allow sufficient play for the hand up and down, to the end that when moving the handle up or down the brush shall be raised or lowered at will. i

It indicates wrist-pins that pass, preferably, through the bracket F and into the ends of the brush-shaft, forming a pivot for the brush.

The improved means for opening and closing the dust-pans are as follows:

H indicates a bar pivoted at one end to the inner wall of the box and at its opposite end to a push-lever, (indicated by K.) The head of this push-lever extends upward through the case and forms a thumb-piece, and is provided with a notch to come in contact with the plate P when the lever is pushed down to hold the pans in a closed position, and near its lower end is detachably fastened to the free end of the bar 11 in the usual manner, and its lower end is united with a retractingspring L, arranged within the box as shown.

P is a plate provided with a slot through which the lever K passes and for the purpose of receiving the catch on the lever K when it is pushed down to hold the pans closed.

Two levers (indicated by M and N) are pivoted to the bar H at their upper ends, while their lower ends are respectively pivoted to elastic rods 0 0, each of which extends downward into a dust-pan and is attached thereto. The elastic rods 0 0 give elasticity to the le ver K, overcoming all lost motion.

It is obvious that by pressing the lever K downward both the dust-pans will be simultaneously closed, while by releasing said lever K from the catch-piece P the spring L will open them.

lVe are aware that dust-pans in sweepers have been opened by means of compound push-leversand springs to keep them closed; but our invention differs from them and is an improvement upon all such devices heretofore invented, inasmuch as it enables the operator to open both dust-pans simultaneously by simply releasing the push-lever from its holding-catch.

Having described our invention, what we claim is- 1. In a carpet-sweeper, the bail D, provided with an eccentric disk 6 and pin 6, the bracket f, provided With lugs c, and the band G, combined subtantially as specified.

2. The bail D, provided with an eccentric disk E, in combination with the bracket F and the band G, constructed and arranged substantially as specified.

3. In a carpet-sweeper provided with two dust-pans, the bar H, push-lever K, and lc- Vers M and N, combined and arranged substantially as specified.

4:. In a carpet-sweeper provided with pivoted dust-pans, the bar H, levers M and N,

the push-lever K, pivoted to bar H, and spring I 5 L, substantially as specified.

5. In a carpet sweeper provided with pivoted dust-pans, the bar lI, levers M and N, the push-lever K, catchplate I, and elastic rods 0 0, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY A. GORE. HIRAM W. RU TON. Witnesses:

XVILBER S. STONE, E. E. MUMMERT. 

